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Issue: Vol. 4272 No. 2: 29 May 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-05-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.2.2
Page range: 178–200
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Four new species and new records of Atopsyche Banks (Trichoptera: Hydrobiosidae) from Pantepui biogeographical region (Venezuela)

Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Severo Ochoa s/n, 18071, Granada, Spain.
Department of Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, B-2 Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, SK-842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Grup de Recerca Freshwater Ecology and Management (FEM) and Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK.
Caddisfly Guiana Highlands imago larva tepuis Neotropics Trichoptera

Abstract

Four new species of the genus Atopsyche Banks (Hydrobiosidae) from Pantepui biogeographical region (Venezuela) are described and illustrated: Atopsyche (Atopsaura) inmae n. sp., Atopsyche (Atopsaura) cristinae n. sp., Atopsyche (Atopsaura) svitoki n. sp., and Atopsyche (Atopsaura) carmenae n. sp. Molecular analyses (cox1 sequences) allowed larva-adult associations and the morphological description of larvae of two of the new species (A. inmae and A. cristinae). A phylogenetic tree is performed to assess the molecular validity of the species, establish evolutionary relation among them and interpret historical biogeography of tepuis. Finally, two new distributional records for A. (Atopsaura) atahuallpa are included, which up to now was known only from the type locality.

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